by Debra Claffey | Oct 30, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
Here’s a link if you would like to sign up. CSA (Community Supported Art!) Rounds One and Two have been sold out! But there will be additional Shares if enough people fill out the form on their website for information. While you sign up I’ll get to work to...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
I am pleased and honored to announce that my teaching connection with R & F Paints in Kingston, New York, has been made official. They have included me in the Tier Artist roster, along with Lorraine Glessner in Pennsylvania, Shelley...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
My friend and colleague, Camille Davidson, has invited me to exhibit at the Gallery in Readfield. The Gallery in Readfield is located in central Maine. Camille organizes visual art exhibitions, artist talks, and musical performances in the space. Of course, for the...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
SO much fun teaching today at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center. What a great group of artists!!! We introduced using cold wax medium with oils on Arches Oil...
by DCadmin | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Updates
← The Reception at Gateway Gallery I’m very proud to make available a catalog of the exhibition at the Springfield Museums that my colleagues and I have put together. The show features work by Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman, Charyl Weissbach and me, at the...
by DCadmin | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Many thanks to Annette Cohen and the staff at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, for the great reception at Gateway Gallery last evening ((March 14, 2019). Thank you all who came out to see the big work. It was an absolute delight to have enough...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
Looking at work and thinking up ideas for a collaboration with poet A. Khaki for WCA/NH Text and Textiles project...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing
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by Debra Claffey | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Last evening Twiggs Gallery hosted a reception for Balancing Acts, a small show of encaustic work that I was delighted to curate. Summer in the country, evening breezes beginning to cool what was a beautiful, blue-sky day. Artist-owner Adele Sanborn’s creation,...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
One of the delightful parts of curating this exhibition was discovering how many artists contemplate this idea of balance in our work and in our lives. I had some questions for Pamala Crabb, an artist living in Maine, who works with wax and encaustic in paintings,...